GWYNNE EDWARDSLecturer - Author - Screen writer - Script writer

BiographyGwynne Edwards is a native of South Wales but now lives in Aberystwyth in West Wales. A graduate of University College, Cardiff, he subsequently completed a postgraduate degree at King’s College, London, and then lectured in Spanish at the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University. In this capacity he has written many books on Spanish theatre and film, in particular on the theatre of the great twentieth-century dramatist García Lorca, and he has also translated and adapted more than 30 Spanish and Spanish American plays, including 10 of Lorca’s plays. These and other play translations have been published by Methuen Drama, and many of them have had professional performances at such venues as the Bristol Old Vic, Leicester Haymarket, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, the Edinburgh Festival, and in London at the Barbican, the Young Vic, the Gate, the Arcola, Battersea Arts Centre, Riverside Studios, Greenwich Playhouse, and Southwark Playhouse. The translation of Lorca’s WhenFiveYearsPass won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival.

Gwynne Edwards’s work has also focused on one-man plays about Welsh actors and writers: Dylan Thomas: the Clown in the Moon; Burton, which won the ‘Best International Performance’ award at the Hollywood Fringe Theatre Festival; Rachel Roberts: Through a Glass Darkly; Where Does the Laughter Come From, a play about the South Wales writer Gwyn Thomas; and, of course, Wilfred Owen: the Pity of War. Gwynne has also written the libretto for an opera, Do Not Go Gentle, based on the last days of Dylan Thomas, music by the American composer Robert Manno. Most recently he has also translated Albert Camus’s The Misunderstanding, and written two original plays: Picasso’s Women, based on the accounts of four of the painter’s mistresses; and Tatyana in Love, based on Alexander Pushkin’s story, Eugene Onegin.